WCC convenes meeting to discuss Greenland

THE World Council of Churches (WCC) has convened an urgent online meeting of church leaders from Greenland, Denmark, the wider Nordic region, and North America, after President Trump’s threats to take over Greenland (News, 16 January). At the meeting on 23 January, Evangelical Lutheran Bishop of Greenland, the Rt Revd Paneeraq Siegstad Munk, said: “What we need to know in Greenland is that we are not alone. We are used to having to wait until the snowstorm is over for the sun to come back . . . God created other people so that we can support each other together.” The general secretary of the WCC, the Revd Professor Jerry Pillay, concurred: “Greenland brings us together, to express our solidarity and to be mindful about other crises as well.”

GSFA committed to staying in Anglican Communion

THE Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) have confirmed their commitment to staying in the Anglican Communion. A communiqué from their meeting in Victoria, Mahe, in the Seychelles, this month, says that the leaders had discussed “a comprehensive Strategic Plan which will enable GSFA to be an increasingly effective instrument for the reform of the Communion”.

Stop teargassing churches, Kenyan police told

THE National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) has condemned the disruption of a service at St Peter’s, Witima, in Othaya, Nyeri County, on Sunday. A prominent Kenyan opposition figure, Rigathi Gachagua, told the BBC this week that an attempt had been made on his life during the service at the Anglican church, when a teargas canister was reportedly thrown inside the building. The NCCK statement said that the National Police Service had violated the constitutional right to worship provided under the Constitution of Kenya (2010). The statement cited nine previous incidents at other churches, and called for a government apology and investigation.